PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager study guide
PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager is a professional certification offered by PECB (the Professional Evaluation and Certification Board), an independent certification body whose catalogue covers cybersecurity, continuity, resilience and recovery, privacy, AI, governance, risk and compliance, and quality and sustainability topics. PECB positions itself around "Building Digital Trust" and lists Disaster Recovery among its Continuity, Resilience, and Recovery training offerings. The PECB Certified Lead Disaster Recovery Manager study guide has 5 sections and about 1,440 words.
01Disaster Recovery Concepts and Principles
This domain checks whether you can distinguish DR from adjacent disciplines and use recovery objectives to drive decisions. Expect questions on RTO, RPO, MTPD, recovery tiers, and the principles that make a DR capability credible.
302 words, about 2 min02Disaster Recovery Program Initiation and Governance
Program initiation and governance questions ask who authorizes DR, how scope is bounded, and how recovery decisions are controlled across business, IT, and suppliers. Start with an executive mandate and a DR policy approved by top management.
290 words, about 1 min03Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis for Disaster Recovery
This domain tests whether you can connect risk assessment and BIA outputs to recovery priorities, RTOs, RPOs, and resource requirements. Risk assessment identifies threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood, and impact, then evaluates treatment options.
280 words, about 1 min04Disaster Recovery Strategies and Solutions
Strategy questions require selecting recovery solutions that meet approved RTO/RPO targets at justified cost, covering data, applications, infrastructure, people, facilities, and suppliers. Match options to tiers: backup and restore for long RTO; warm standby, replication, or pilot light for moderate RTO; active-active or high availability for short RTO and RPO.
289 words, about 1 min05Disaster Recovery Plan Development, Testing, and Maintenance
This domain tests plan content, activation logic, exercise design, and maintenance triggers - the evidence that recovery can actually be executed. A DR plan states purpose, scope, roles, contact and call trees, activation criteria and authority, recovery procedures, dependencies, communications, sequence, and appendices.
279 words, about 1 min